steve jenkin wrote on 20/10/09 6:51 PM:
> Rod Peters wrote on 18/10/09 8:47 AM:
>>> The fact that Keith has put the HDD in a different computer (read different
>> mainboard) leads me to believe it is probably an initrd issue. openSUSE puts
>> the required PATA and/or SATA modules only in the initrd. Options are:
>>>> put it back with the original mobo and use Yast to *add* the relevant modules
>> (which does not appear to be an option in this instance) Had to do this
>> myself recently.
>>>> find another mainboard having same PATA controller
>>>> boot from CD/DVD and select "repair installed system". That will do a fairly
>> thorough review of the config files and should rebuild initrd.
>> <snip>
>>> Rod
Today's update.
<snip>
> My current plan is download a fresh SuSE 11.1 disk and go visit Keith
> again tomorrow afternoon.
Running 'repair' from the DVD, almost everything worked - including
mkinitrd.
I let the DVD re-install grub - which broke the boot loader :-(
The system booted and failed with "No operating system".
Despite farnarkling with /boot/grub/menu.lst a number of ways, I
couldn't get past the error.
I did a fresh install onto the unused partition (but 'ext3' not
'reiserfs') and it boots and runs from the disk OK.
Question:
Could a reiserfs problem account for the failure of grub?
(no O/S found)
I now have to either try to recover the previous install or migrate the
useful stuff to the new partition...
Hints/Comments anyone?
s
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